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16 out of 19 people found the following review useful:
Beautiful…both the actress and the film!, 27 January 2004

Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

Blood from the mummy's tomb is a ravishing addition to the mummy genre…the most stylish and elegant sub genre of horror. Based on writings by Bram Stoker and produced by the British expert company Hammer ( near the end of their reign in the field ), this film is not to be missed by fans of breath-taking stories, stunning legends and historical settings. Margaret ( the astonishing beauty and hottie, Valerie Léon ) often suffers from nightmares in which she dreams about an ancient Queen of Darkness ( the astonishing beauty and hottie, Valerie Léon ). Due to the confessions of her father and his fellow Egyptologists, Margaret soon finds out that she shares a lot more with Queen Tera then just the good looks. Possessed by the Egyptian Queen and influenced by a greedy vulture-scientist, Margaret slowly becomes the resurrection of Tera. I've read quite a share of negative reviews on this film but I strongly disagree…perhaps I'm a bit biased because I love mummies and stories about the ancient Egypt, but even from a subjective point of view, I think this film belongs to the greatest last efforts Hammer achieved. James Villiers gives away the best acting performance as Corbeck. He's an unscrupulous scientist who clearly enjoys the diabolical games he plays. Lovely!! Blood from the Mummy's Tomb breaths an irresistible atmosphere and makes great use of terrific relics and settings. The film also contains a rather large amount of gruesome sequences and bloody make-up. …But, why am I typing all these things to convince you?!? Perhaps it's enough to tell you that the heavenly beauty Léon has multiple cleavage scenes!!

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12 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
Atmosphere in spades, 24 June 2000

Author: Tom May (joycean_chap@hotmail.com) from United Kingdom

What struck me about this underrated picture is that it bears few of the typical Hammer features. The Egyptian theme is well used, with glittering, sombre relics prevalent; a haunting mood is evoked. The mood was similar to that of "Frankenstein: The True Story" (just as underrated a film as this)- melancholic, sparse and eerie. It is visually excellent, with effective, forboding music from Tristram Cary. The British cast prove very much at home with the dark horror of the script. James Villiers is a smooth, misguided villain, Andrew Keir gives an astute perofrmance as the sombre Fuchs, while George Coulouris and Hugh Burden are both very good at portraying their disturbed characters. The tall, elegant Valerie Leon is perfect for the dual role, with the beauty and dreamlike-quality necessary for the role of the bewitched Margaret. The setting appears to be modern, but the tone and feel of it is Edwardian. Perhaps the only element missing is humour, but when watching the film you don't really notice this; while it would be nice if there'd been more humour, it's still very enjoyable. Recommended to lovers of intelligent horror films and of atmosphere. Rating:- **** (out of *****)

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11 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Entertaining Egyptian horror yarn featuring the killer cleavage of Valerie Leon!, 11 May 2003
Author: Infofreak from Perth, Australia

'Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' isn't one of Hammer's very best, but it's still a ripping yarn about an expedition to Egypt which inadvertently awakens the powers of an evil Egyptian Queen with disastrous results. The movie is based on a Bram Stoker novel I'm not familiar with so I can't vouch for how faithful the adaptation is, but I found it to be extremely entertaining viewing. Andrew Keir, who had previously played Professor Quatermass in Hammer's excellent 'Quatermass And The Pit', is the leader of the expedition, and the stunning Valerie Leon, best known as a regular in the 'Carry On' series, plays the duel role of his daughter and the evil Queen Tera. The movie is full of thrills and chills, a strong supporting cast (including James Villers and the wonderful Aubrey Morris), and good production values, but I must admit I was as much mesmerized by Ms. Leon's killer cleavage as anything else on the screen! Hubba hubba! 'Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' is more remembered for the so-called curse during its production, but it deserves more than that. It's yet another enjoyable movie from the underrated Hammer studios, and is definitely worth a look. And not just to perv on Valerie Leon!

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Valerie Too Fine To Be Kept Under Wraps!, 7 May 2008

Author: ferbs54 from United States

It's been many years since I read Bram Stoker's 1903 novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars," but what I mainly recollect is a feeling of great disappointment; the book is all buildup, with very little in the way of payoff. The 1971 Hammer filmization, renamed "Blood From the Mummy's Tomb," can be accused of the same unfortunate misdemeanor, but still has much to offer. It tells the tale of Tera, an ancient Egyptian sorceress who had been executed back when, had her hand dismembered and her body encased in a tomb. Centuries later, that tomb is discovered by a researcher named Fuchs, whose daughter is the very image of the priestess. It would seem that Tera is about to be finally reincarnated.... Taking place in an indeterminate year (the clothing and furnishings are modern, yet the automobiles are vintage), "Blood From" boasts some mild gross-out FX (that severed hand, and Tera's many throat rippings), an interesting enough story, adequate sets and--typical for a Hammer film--fine acting from its second-tier cast. In her dual role as the "slumbering" Tera and Fuchs' possessed daughter, Margaret, actress Valerie Leon literally stands out in this cast. A stunning-looking woman even today, her, um, mUmmarian protuberances are amply brought to the fore here in any number of negligees and low-cut gowns. As Tera, she is found completely unswathed; I suppose even the ancient Egyptian priests felt that her body was too impressive to be kept under wraps! In any event, Valerie's presence is reason enough to give this film a recommendation. The film's story line presents some unanswered questions (Just how does the Corbeck character plan to control Tera once she "awakens," for instance? And that ambiguous ending is anybody's guess!), but I must say that I enjoyed this film more on a repeat viewing, with lowered expectations. It's a fun latter-day Hammer flick, shown to good advantage on this great-looking Anchor Bay DVD.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Certainly the most voluptuous mummy ever, 11 May 2007
Author: Juha Hämäläinen from Finland

It never crossed my mind that archeology could get so sexy. The findings usually tend to have a much drier and dustier appearance. Valerie Leon has really showed new aspects to Egyptology here. In her double role as remarkably well ministered mummy of Queen Tera and Margharet Fuchs she is widely let use the two most expressive features of her physique and to steal the scenes totally without really doing anything. Her lovely eyes.

After countless variations of Count Dracula it was nice to see Hammer studios make good use of another story from Bram Stoker for a change. Mind you, the original novel 'Jewel of the Seven Stars', which this film is based on, does seem to use many of the same kind of story elements; a living dead with a curse and otherworldly powers, bringing the evil to London to be unleashed, a lunatic asylum patient closely connected to proceedings, a beauty with meaningful nightmares and so on. But it doesn't really matter, nobody here gets bitten too badly, anyway.

The film is occasionally rather slow moving and maybe a little too carelessly scripted, but it looks fantastic with the sets and props of Egyptian theme. And the loose hand of the mummy saying hi here and there brings joy every time. For the general mood the whole film seems to have a certain peculiar halo with heavily bright lighting, specially those scenes taking place towards the end. The shine of the curse coming true perhaps. Or good natured fun of silliness.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Disturbing version of Stoker's very disturbing "mummy" novel., 24 March 1999

Author: anonymous

This is by a long way the best of the three adaptations so far of Bram Stoker's complex and disturbing novel of an Egyptologist's obsessive desire to revive an evil ancient Egyptian queen. (The novel was so worrying in 1903 that the ending was changed for the second edition: this movie keeps mainly to the original ending.) The cast ranges from competent to quite good, with the Queen/daughter suitably seductive but unreadable. The appearance is handsomely and oppressively Edwardian - the ancient Egyptian is rather silly - and the direction firm. Try this as a better taste of Stoker's obsessive psychological horror than any of the versions of "Dracula" except the long British TV adaptation.

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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, 12 June 2007

Author: Scarecrow-88 from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Egyptian priests, threatened by the power and proposed evil of Queen Tera(Valerie Leon), kill her and entomb her corpse(..after extracting a hand which held a red-emerald ring on one finger), but meet tragic ends for doing so. Despite being entombed, however, Tera is able to summon archaeologists to her place of rest, with Professor Julian Fuchs(a really good Andrew Keir, memorable as Quatermass in Hammer's excellent "Quatermass and the Pit")as the head of the unearthing. Each member retrieve a certain relic inside the tomb within their possession for "safe keeping" as Julian stores Tera's tomb in his carefully designed basement in his home. The key aspect to this film is that the moment Julian opened the tomb of Tera, his wife dies giving birth to his daughter who also quits breathing..yet, mysteriously Margaret's(also Valerie Leon) heart begins beating again setting in motion her link with Tera. Corbeck(James Villiers playing him quite aggressive and slimy), a key member of Julian's crew, wishes to see Tera's "rebirth" into the world as he believes he can control her with Julian's help. Tera's great power, he sees, can be used as an advantage, but Julian feels that she can be controlled by no one. We watch as she uses Margaret's human host as a means to terrorize and destroy all who were there when she was removed from the entombment and captured the relics. Margaret's beau Tod(Mark Edwards)will try to help his girlfriend as it seems Corbeck's influence on her is growing while also desiring to protect her from the danger of being harmed like the others who have come in contact with Tera's evil. But, we see as the bodies pile up with their throats torn away, that Tera may not be stopped..perhaps her evil is too powerful for anyone to control. Corbeck will try to read from a scroll, while also re-attaching the removed hand(we see, throughout the film, blood always trickling from where the hand was removed)so that Tera can return to this world. Somehow Julian and Margaret will have to fight against Tera's evil will in order to thwart her plans of returning to this world to possibly wreak havoc.

Complex, absorbing horror film might be frustrating for many because it's not a mummy film..you never see a bandaged monster running amok. Based on a novel by Bram Stoker, it's actually about evil incarnate unleashing terror against those who have discovered her or pose a threat against her plans. Everyone is fodder or vessels for Tera to use. This film is quite a challenging flick..I admired it's complexity and uniqueness from the typical Hammer horror fare. I think, despite it's faults, that this has much to offer those curious for something different. The appearance of torn throats is jarring, the performances are quite good, as always mentioned ad nauseum Leon's voluptuous breasts are certainly stare-worthy, and the ending is bleak(..nearly everyone dies)enough to make this flick quite satisfying..well, at least it was to me.

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Dull supernatural horror film from Hammer without a bandage in sight!, 1 April 2005

Author: Paul Andrews (poolandrews@hotmail.com) from UK

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb opens in Egypt. An evil Egyptian sorceress named Queen Tera (Valerie Leon) is lying in a sarcophagus, some Egyptian priests cut her hand off with an axe. They take the severed limb outside & give it to the dogs to chew on, but the hand is still alive & starts crawling around. The priests finish the ceremony and seal Tera's tomb. Outside they are terrorised by what looks like a sandstorm that rips all their throats out. Cut to Margaret Fuchs (Valerie Leon as well) waking up, it was all a nightmare as her Father Professor Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir) comforts her. The filmmakers make sure we notice that Margaret has a red scar like mark on her wrist. The next morning Professor Fuchs gives his daughter Margaret a beautiful ring for her upcoming birthday, at the centre of which is a large brilliant red ruby. Margaret plans on spending the day with her (lucky) boyfriend Tod Browning (Mark Edwards) who takes an immediate interest in Margaret's new ring. Tod assumes that it is from Professor Fuchs expedition to Egypt many years ago & decides to take it a friend named Geoffrey Dandridge (Hugh Burden) to try & find out more about it. When Geoffrey sees the ring he becomes very nervous & agitated, when he sees Margaret he nearly has a heart attack. They continue to investigate the ring as strange occurrences begin to happen, it turns out that Professor Fuchs, Dandridge along with Corbeck (James Villiers), Professor Berrigan (George Coulouris) & Helen Dickerson (Rosalie Crutchley) were all members of an expedition to the tomb of Queen Tera in Egypt. There, they found the perfectly preserved body of Tera & her severed hand from which Professor Fuchs removed the ring. At the exact same moment they discovered the body of Queen Tera Margaret was born back in London. Margaret looks exactly like Queen Tera & starts to take on the characteristics of Tera as she becomes possessed by the evil Queen's spirit who uses her body to gather an artifact from each team member she needs to revive herself completely!

Initially to be directed by Seth Holt but was finished by Micheal Carreras when Holt died of heart failure before filming was completed. The script by Christopher Wicking based on the Bram Stoker Novel Jewel of the Seven Stars is far too slow & dull, especially the final half of the film. It also ditches the expected Mummy in bandages for a unexciting, awkward & underdeveloped supernatural angle. I was uninterested in anyone or anything on screen & the story just didn't captivate me. I thought Blood from the Mummy's Tomb was a generally poor film throughout except for a few half decent sequences & the undeniable on screen presence & beauty of leading lady Valerie Leon. None of the familiar Hammer stars are present, the sets look extremely cheap & fake with an awful looking English studio bound Egypt during the opening sequence & several flashbacks. Tera's tomb is also severely lacking as the hieroglyphics on the wall look like they were painted by a primary school art class. I'm not sure what sort of look the director & production designer Scott MacGregor had in mind with the look of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, it appears set in 70's London with some of it's fashions & locations especially Tod with his clothes & swanky flat. Yet there are scenes where it looks as if Hammer wanted the film to be set in Victorian times, like their Frankenstein's & Dracula's. Some of the medical equipment used, the mental asylum that looks more like a prison with it's cells for patients, some of the interior shots of Fuchs house plus the clothes Professor Fuchs & Dandridge wear also make me feel that the filmmakers were in two minds about the look of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. Surprisingly there is a fair amount of blood & gore, Tera's severed hand keeps turning up, shots of Tera's stump at the end of her arm pouring with blood & quite a few ripped open throats. One more thing, the film is set in London but Tera was found in Egypt & Professor Fuchs now keeps her in his basement. So how did Fuchs get a sarcophagus with a body that looks like they died yesterday in it & still bleeding through customs? Overall I really didn't think much of Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, maybe I was expecting too much but ultimately I found the film as dull as dishwater & nothing during it's 90 plus minute running time particularly stood out as being enjoyable (maybe expect Valerie Leon's brief nude scene!) or entertaining as far as I'm concerned. Hammer have made much better horror films, see one of those instead.

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9 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Reasonable Hammer Horror Movie, 29 January 2006

Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

On the night before her anniversary, Margaret Fuchs (Valerie Leon) receives an ancient Egyptian ring with a red stone as a birthday gift from her father, Prof. Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir). Margaret has frequent nightmares about an expedition in Egypt with five members, including her father, finding the tomb of Queen Tera, an evil sorcerer with a severed hand. The members collect the sarcophagus with a totally preserved mummy, the severed hand with the ring with a red stone, and three relics. Margaret is possessed by the spirit of Tera and chases the expedition members to retrieve the objects and gives life back to Tera.

"Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" is only a reasonable Hammer horror movie. The locations and the cinematography are beautiful; Valerie Leon is extremely gorgeous, with a sexy body, amazing eyes and a very beautiful face; the story is not bad; but something is missing in the screenplay to make this movie a classic. The ambiguous characters of Margaret and Prof. Julian Fuchs are quite confused, and it is not clear whether the father wants to protect her daughter or help Tera. This movie entertains, but had potential to be better and better. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Sangue no Sarcófago da Múmia" ("Blood in the Sarcophagus of the Mummy")

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Understated horror in classic style, with fine performances, 17 May 1999
Author: Gothick from Boston, Mass.

This difficult-to-find gem (my copy is a bootleg--sorry about that) sorts oddly with the kind of trash Hammer studios was churning out in the early 70s--Lust for a Vampire and that sort of thing. The production seemed to be under a curse of its own--Peter Cushing was involved for the first two days of shooting but then had to leave due to his wife's death; director Seth Holt had nearly finished the film and then died of a heart attack. The final film, finished by Hammer producer Michael Carreras, was described as barely coherent in magazine reviews of the time, but makes perfect sense to this viewer. It's in the style of Don't Look Now, Rosemary's Baby, or Night of Dark Shadows--a story of the supernatural slowly seeping into a modern day setting, with fine character performances, especially from Andrew Keir, James Villiers and Rosalie Crutchley. Leading lady Valerie Leon was dubbed--not sure by whom, but the voice is effective.

This is an unusual tale for those who like subtly constructed stories with a focus upon character and atmosphere. The occasional schlock element doesn't really detract at all from the sinister thrall of the film's design.

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